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Hi. I have tried unsuccessfully to make icing sugar 3 times now. Each time I am using raw sugar and I process on speed 9 for 9 secs. Definitely not long enough. I have processed for up to 30 secs and still no success. The problem is that it is still very grainy and not fine enough. Could it be that my blades are not sharp enough? I don't want to buy icing sugar, that is one of the benefits of buying a thermomix I thought. Please help!
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Hi Suzed
Raw sugar to Castor sugar = 3 seconds.
Raw sugar to Icing sugar = 9 seconds
If I want to do really white icing I use normal white sugar and mill it (speed 9 for 9 seconds) to icing sugar. I don't buy icing sugar anymore because of the anti-caking agents that are in it and because it is so easy to make it from white sugar.
Otherwise I use raw sugar in everything else.
Hope that helps, Fiona
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Do you mean white sugar as normal sugar? I don't use any other sugar except raw sugar these days. If I need it a little finer, I just put it in the TM and give it a blitz for a second or two. The only time I use any other sugar is with icing sugar. I do some cake decorating, and using the normal white icing sugar makes the icing a better colour. If I'm doing chocolate icing, I just use raw sugar that i process in the TM to make it into icing sugar. I actually prefer the taste. 